Can microdosing have permanent effects due to rewiring your brain?

If you microdose psychedelics on a regular basis, it'd obviously improve your life. You'd form new habits that improve your life, new perspectives, and new behaviours etc

If you did it long enough, wouldn't that form new networks in your brain for those behaviours? So even if you stopped microdosing, you'd continue at least a significant amount of behaviours you adopted while doing it

I wouldn't say it's as much the brain chemistry as it is the learning of good habits. Microdosing increases motivation, brightens mood, and energizes the body and mind, all of which increase one's ability to change themselves for the better. Once those changes become part of one's new and improved disposition, the individual will no longer need the microdosing regimen to maintain these benefits. I hope this helps:)

> You'd form new habits that improve your life, new perspectives, and new behaviours etc

All of these things result in new networks in your brain! One of the main ideas of microdosing is that you don't have to do it forever because the changes can be long lasting like that.

To the other commenter who mentioned this, no this is not the same as withdrawal or dependency. You can have an influential psychedelic experience, micro or full dose, and have no urge to do it again while still feeling the benefits.

Edit: I’d like to emphasize that while yes every action we take technically rewires our brain in some way, it is on a different level when it comes to psychedelics. Psychedelics cause sections of our brains to communicate in new ways, creating new highways between sections. These new connections can be long lasting and life changing in many circumstances. For example, after a period of using psychedelics therapeutically, I have gotten more in touch with feeling how my diet affects my body.

Yes, exactly! You are rewiring your brain and reprogramming it out of undesirable patterns. The full dose studies have repeatedly shown lasting positive effects (openness, positive outlook) months to a couple years after psychedelic therapy sessions without redosing. While we need MD-specific studies, it's seeming that the same thing is possible with microdosing.

This is the best answer. The way that a brain “wires” or “rewires” itself is a very complex process. When you perform an action the brain stores the information in pieces and the activation of a network brings the pieces together. Unless the network is used for some time the ability to activate the network may fade but the pieces of the pattern may remain. This is how the brain works under normal general circumstances. Because of the lack of study of psychedelics and the direct effects one these networks it is hard to say that the brain will work differently or the same when a foreign variable is introduced without further study.

This is a community for discussion pertaining to microdosing experiments and regimens. The most probable candidates for microdosing are psychedelics, but we encourage dialogue on the effects of any drugs at near threshold dosage.